Planetary Annihilation's $90 Alpha [Jun 14, 2013, 8:41 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Steam News announces
that Planetary
Annihilation is now available as an early access title. This is causing
quite a stir thanks to the $89.99 price it carries, which is steep for a
finished game, much less a pre-beta. They include a note somewhat addressing
this, explaining that this is the price they told their Kickstarter backers that
early access would command:
Our pricing for this stage of early access was determined by our Kickstarter. The stages of our early access for ALL users, which was determined during our Kickstarter, is:
June through August: $90 for early alpha access, during the time where we're still locking down features and making tweaks to the flow of the game. This access is permanent access - you will be able to play through alpha, beta and on through retail. (Galactic Edition Equivalent with all addons)
RaZ0r! wrote on Jun 14, 2013, 23:20:
I have SO many GOOD games ready to play in my Steam backlog from all the sales. It's a no brainer to use this $90 price tag as a reason to not only never buy this game, but to forget it ever existed.
Yes, but do you have a sequel to Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander in your Steam backlog? Of course you don't. Because there hasn't been one. Until now. And for a certain kind of gamer, that's all that matters.
Also, why is this so hard for some people to understand? Tiered Kickstarters do this ALL THE TIME. You pay more for the privilege of early access. A bunch of games offer alpha access: Torment - $125, Elite - £200, Camelot - $110, Divinity - $135, Godus - £100, etc. A couple thousand backers paid $90 or more in the original KS for this reward. Now they're making it available on Steam FOR THE SAME PRICE. The full game will be a "normal" price. I got the launch version for $20 (don't like alpha or beta testing personally). The launch version will probably be somewhere around there.
RIP RedEye9. We miss you.
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